Host to francophone West Africa’s regional stock exchange, the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM), Côte d’Ivoire has a more sophisticated financial services industry than most of its peers in the region, with an impressive geographic catchment area. The sixth-largest of Africa’s 29 exchanges by capitalisation, the BRVM has seen the...
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Articles & Analysis | Secondary market makers: Bond market development is the key to greater regional liquidity from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2015
Articles & Analysis | Ecobank: Banking from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2015
THE COMPANY: Ecobank Transnational Incorporated is a pan-African bank, founded in 1985 in Togo, which operates in 36 African countries via six regional clusters, including Nigeria, francophone West Africa (nine countries including Côte d’Ivoire), the rest of West Africa (five...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Emmanuel Esmel Essis, Director-General, Investment Promotion Agency of Côte d’Ivoire (CEPICI): Interview from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2015
Interviews & Viewpoints | Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan: Interview from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2015
Articles & Analysis | Casting a wider net: The country is aiming to diversify its economy and its trade partners from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2015
An open economy with trade accounting for 91% of GDP in 2013, Côte d’Ivoire has traditionally held a central position in regional trade. The heavyweight of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine, UEMOA) with 35% of regional GDP, the country lost some of its stature over the decade of unrest....
Articles & Analysis | Fiscal drivers: The authorities are making considerable efforts to stabilise spending and reassure potential lenders from The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2015
The National Development Plan (NDP) boosted public investment from 3% of GDP in 2011 to 9.7% by 2015, but headline spending is not the only notable aspect of Côte d’Ivoire’s fiscal policy. With donor support the authorities have also made headway on improving execution of spending and shifting funds to capital projects – even if recurrent...